Depressigyra

Depressigyra is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Peltospiridae.

Depressigyra

Marie HENNION · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PeltospiridaePBDB
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Gastropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Gastropoda
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 5 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 5 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 5 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–31 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences1.6–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya129 ka49 Mya0 Mya

5 occurrences of Depressigyra on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

5 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

2 formations

Lincoln Creek — 47.28°N, 123.52°WLincoln Creek — 47.27°N, 123.56°WHumptulips — 47.32°N, 123.57°W

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The named rock units Depressigyra has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Depressigyra and its relatives

Eocene

Where Depressigyra and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Depressigyra, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 5 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Depressigyra

Credit
Marie HENNION
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Depressigyra globulus · ypm:iz:112058

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPeltospiridae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Warén and Bouchet 1989